🌿 As John Cherry says, farmers are on the frontline and are often the first to feel shifting weather patterns. Rural communities – both here in the UK & around the world – are also already living with the realities of climate change, as challenges like flooding become more common and serious.

🗣️How can farmers get their voices heard better?

🚜Exmoor farmer Holly Purdey calls on her fellow farmers to get involved in consultations and workshops for better, more balanced outcomes – otherwise the most dominant voices can drown out the rest.

Listen here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🍔This week, @ashorguk.bsky.social, @aha-uk.bsky.social, & @oha-updates.bsky.social published a new report ‘Killer Tactics 2'.

Read it here: obesityhealthalliance.org.uk/2025/10/23/k...

Find out how the report links to what citizens have told us in #TheFoodConversation: ffcc.co.uk/publications...

🗣️How does language shape the world around us?

👀 Watch our full session at The @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Party Conference – ‘Get real about growth: how better food, homes and communities can renew Britain’ - www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wy1...

Everyone knows how important food is. It’s critical to life and how we take care of each other.

🍓Hear more from citizens and read The Food Strategy here: ffcc.co.uk/food-strategy

@fao.org #WorldFoodDay

The excellent Sarah Langford at our panel at @teamlabouruk.bsky.social Party Conference earlier this month, on why investment alone isn’t enough to create change that people and communities can feel.

Follow this link to watch in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wy1...

🤔 Is it really people’s “choice” to eat bad food?

🍫Here Food Strategy Citizen Advisory Council member Martin reflects on how big food companies engineer decisions about food through price, packaging and marketing...

🗣️ “We have to put resilience into the business, and how do you do that? You have to put carbon into the soil.”

Listen to the full episode here: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

🎙️ Out now: We Need To Talk About… Net Zero

Listen to the episode in full: ffcc.co.uk/conversation...

“Citizens want a government to take food seriously” - @suepritch.bsky.social, FFCC Chief Exec

We’re at Labour Party Conference this week to bring citizen voices to debates around food, farming & land – and encourage govt to put food at the heart of national renewal.

Here's where you can find us👇

“People are outraged when they find out just how much big food corporations spend on lobbying government.”

Our CEO @suepritch.bsky.social on today's episode of The Food Programme, sharing what we found from talking to citizens in #TheFoodConversation.

Listen in full 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...